This post could probably apply to a lot of colleges, but I thought I'd give a shout out to my alma mater. There is a lot of angst these days from people my age, many of whom are coming to the harsh realization that getting a college degree doesn't automatically give you a fast-paced high-paying…
I get asked this question a lot from my non-engineer friends and family members, and I've probably done a pretty bad job of answering it over the years. To be honest, it was a question that I myself once had, even after a few years in engineering school. I knew what I was doing in…
No. But let me finish, Kanye. This issue comes up quite a bit, and with a new football season underway I thought I would give my take on it. The main reason for my response that they shouldn't be paid is that college athletics, in their purest form, should be: A way for college students…
I write a lot of posts on this website about things that I am not really qualified to write about, but this is not one of them. Just so you know, I rocked college. I went to a really hard school where people were known to fail so many classes that when you asked them…
Perhaps the defining feature of adulthood is the necessity of making important decisions. In childhood, everything is decided for you: where you go to school, what you learn, what you eat, etc., but in adulthood, things become far less clear. To some degree, my generation of Millennials has had a hard time transitioning into pure…